Websites can certainly can eat up a lot of time and effort, but I feel it's a necessary part of being in this "business".
Generally, when it comes to a website, the average visitor will land on the home page, and if they don't see something that peaks their interest, of if they don't find what they want, with a matter of seconds, they simply move on.
The first thing I'll mention is a pet-peev of mine.... YOUR NAME needs to be the first thing they see, along with your work. Something that many makers don't understand or realize is that when a client purchases a knife, they are not just buying a knife....they are buying a piece of the maker. When they purchase a knife, they want it to reflect the maker, and to be readily identifiable as being made by the individual. To that end, I always advise maker to use at least their last name. I understand that to many makers using initials is "identifiable", but the truth is that only makes the knife identifiable to that particular maker. I can't count the number of times people have walked into my shop over the year, with a knife that had some strange logo on it, or initials, and asked if I could help them find they knifemaker, so they could order/purchase another knife from them. There's just no viable way to locate the individual...... now if you have your last name, or last name and first initial as a "mark", a person could go to google and type in (first initial/last name/"knives" or "knifemaker") and anything you have on the web would pop up.
Next, I would consider changing the font....for me it is somewhat small, and difficult to read in the cursive format. I would recommend enlarging the font, or possibly changing it to something like Times New Roman, or even Arial.
Otherwise it's a good start. The biggest thing about a website is to grab a person's attention the moment it pops up on their monitor.....and have things that will make them want to stay, and "look around".
Obviously, higher quality pictures are a good thing, but I understand it takes time and effort to learn/gain those..... Just make sure you keep the site updated, and/or change things up every now and then.... there are a ton of knifemaker websites out there right now, that are the same as they were a year ago......and I can promise you those sites' traffic reflects that. Another thing you need to do is optimize, and get your site registered on the major search engines...... just look it up on the web. It's easy to do, and it nearly tripled the traffic my site receives per month. (averages about 6,000 views per month). Prior to that, I was lucky to get 500 visitors a month.
Personally, I do my own website too, and a couple of years ago I stumble across a software called:
http://www.wysiwygwebbuilder.com/index.html It's very robust for it's cost, and is fairly easy to learn. It allows for much more then the webhost service site builders.